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arcatek | 4 years ago

However note that ESM in Node comes with drawbacks that prevent end-users from relying them in various situations. Those will be mostly solved once loaders become stable, but until then it's still advised to ship packages as both CJS and ESM.

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rattray|4 years ago

How do you do both?

inglor|4 years ago

It's very easy to re-export ESM (import) as CJS (require) and vice-versa. The main issue is that ESM by default

For example to use `require` inside ESModules you would do:

```mjs import { createRequire } from 'module'; const require = createRequire(import.meta.url); require('./whatever-in-cjs'); ```

There is a reason this isn't "by default" though since ESM doesn't "silently" interop with CJS to not make writing universal code harder.